What safety-engineered devices are available to prevent blood-borne pathogen exposure?
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) requires the use of safer sharp devices (and other safety-engineered devices) to protect health care workers from becoming infected with HIV, hepatitis B, and hepatitis C from work-related exposure to blood and body fluids. The Needlestick Prevention Act of 1999 (signed into law in 2000) requires that frontline health care workers be involved in selecting these devices. Ask how you might become involved in this group.
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